87 challengers for Best Foreign Picture

87 COUNTRIES IN COMPETITION FOR 

2018 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM OSCAR®

Eighty-seven countries have submitted films for consideration in the Foreign Language Film category for the 91st Academy Awards®.  Malawi and Niger are first-time entrants. 



The 2018 submissions are: 

Afghanistan, “Rona Azim’s Mother,” Jamshid Mahmoudi, director;



Algeria, “Until the End of Time,” Yasmine Chouikh, director;



Argentina, “El Ángel,” Luis Ortega, director;



Armenia, “Spitak,” Alexander Kott, director;



Australia, “Jirga,” Benjamin Gilmour, director;



Austria, “The Waldheim Waltz,” Ruth Beckermann, director;



Bangladesh, “No Bed of Roses,” Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, director;



Belarus, “Crystal Swan,” Darya Zhuk, director;



Belgium, “Girl,” Lukas Dhont, director;



Bolivia, “The Goalkeeper,” Rodrigo “Gory” Patiño, director;



Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Never Leave Me,” Aida Begić, director;



Brazil, “The Great Mystical Circus,” Carlos Diegues, director;



Bulgaria, “Omnipresent,” Ilian Djevelekov, director;



Cambodia, “Graves without a Name,” Rithy Panh, director;



Canada, “Family Ties,” Sophie Dupuis, director;



Chile, “…And Suddenly the Dawn,” Silvio Caiozzi, director;



China, “Hidden Man,” Jiang Wen, director;



Colombia, “Birds of Passage,” Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra, directors;



Costa Rica, “Medea,” Alexandra Latishev, director;



Croatia, “The Eighth Commissioner,” Ivan Salaj, director;



Czech Republic, “Winter Flies,” Olmo Omerzu, director;



Denmark, “The Guilty,” Gustav Möller, director;



Dominican Republic, “Cocote,” Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, director;



Ecuador, “A Son of Man,” Jamaicanoproblem, director;



Egypt, “Yomeddine,” A.B. Shawky, director;



Estonia, “Take It or Leave It,” Liina Trishkina-Vanhatalo, director;



Finland, “Euthanizer,” Teemu Nikki, director;



France, “Memoir of War,” Emmanuel Finkiel, director;



Georgia, “Namme,” Zaza Khalvashi, director;



Germany, “Never Look Away,” Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, director;



Greece, “Polyxeni,” Dora Masklavanou, director;



Hong Kong, “Operation Red Sea,” Dante Lam, director;



Hungary, “Sunset,” László Nemes, director;



Iceland, “Woman at War,” Benedikt Erlingsson, director;



India, “Village Rockstars,” Rima Das, director;



Indonesia, “Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts,” Mouly Surya, director;



Iran, “No Date, No Signature,” Vahid Jalilvand, director;



Iraq, “The Journey,” Mohamed Jabarah Al-Daradji, director;



Israel, “The Cakemaker,” Ofir Raul Graizer, director;



Italy, “Dogman,” Matteo Garrone, director;



Japan, “Shoplifters,” Hirokazu Kore-eda, director;



Kazakhstan, “Ayka,” Sergey Dvortsevoy, director;



Kenya, “Supa Modo,” Likarion Wainaina, director;



Kosovo, “The Marriage,” Blerta Zeqiri, director;



Latvia, “To Be Continued,” Ivars Seleckis, director;



Lebanon, “Capernaum,” Nadine Labaki, director;



Lithuania, “Wonderful Losers: A Different World,” Arunas Matelis, director;



Luxembourg, “Gutland,” Govinda Van Maele, director;



Macedonia, “Secret Ingredient,” Gjorce Stavreski, director;



Malawi, “The Road to Sunrise,” Shemu Joyah, director;



Mexico, “Roma,” Alfonso Cuarón, director;



Montenegro, “Iskra,” Gojko Berkuljan, director;



Morocco, “Burnout,” Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, director;



Nepal, “Panchayat,” Shivam Adhikari, director;



Netherlands, “The Resistance Banker,” Joram Lürsen, director;



New Zealand, “Yellow Is Forbidden,” Pietra Brettkelly, director;



Niger, “The Wedding Ring,” Rahmatou Keïta, director;



Norway, “What Will People Say,” Iram Haq, director;



Pakistan, “Cake,” Asim Abbasi, director;



Palestine, “Ghost Hunting,” Raed Andoni, director;



Panama, “Ruben Blades Is Not My Name,” Abner Benaim, director;



Paraguay, “The Heiresses,” Marcelo Martinessi, director;



Peru, “Eternity,” Oscar Catacora, director;



Philippines, “Signal Rock,” Chito S. Roño, director;



Poland, “Cold War,” Pawel Pawlikowski, director;



Portugal, “Pilgrimage,” João Botelho, director;



Romania, “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians,” Radu Jude, director; 



Russia, “Sobibor,” Konstantin Khabensky, director;



Serbia, “Offenders,” Dejan Zecevic, director;



Singapore, “Buffalo Boys,” Mike Wiluan, director;



Slovakia, “The Interpreter,” Martin Šulík, director;



Slovenia, “Ivan,” Janez Burger, director;



South Africa, “Sew the Winter to My Skin,” Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, director;



South Korea, “Burning,” Lee Chang-dong, director;



Spain, “Champions,” Javier Fesser, director;



Sweden, “Border,” Ali Abbasi, director;



Switzerland, “Eldorado,” Markus Imhoof, director;



Taiwan, “The Great Buddha+,” Hsin-Yao Huang, director; 



Thailand, “Malila The Farewell Flower,” Anucha Boonyawatana, director;



Tunisia, “Beauty and the Dogs,” Kaouther Ben Hania, director;



Turkey, “The Wild Pear Tree,” Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director;



Ukraine, “Donbass,” Sergei Loznitsa, director;



United Kingdom, “I Am Not a Witch,” Rungano Nyoni, director;



Uruguay, “Twelve-Year Night,” Álvaro Brechner, director;



Venezuela, “The Family,” Gustavo Rondón Córdova, director;



Vietnam, “The Tailor,” Buu Loc Tran, Kay Nguyen, directors;



Yemen, “10 Days before the Wedding,” Amr Gamal, director.

Nominations for the 91st Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday, January 22, 2019.

The 91st Oscars® will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre® at Hollywood & Highland Center® in Hollywood, and will be televised live by the ABC Television Network.  The Oscars also will be televised live in more than 225 countries and territories worldwide.